UPL 61062

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Twenty-eight years after the William Chapman Crew, 791 BS, 467th BG, A/C B-24J 42-50599, on Group Mission #196, was shot down, this article was published in the Russian newspaper "Pravda" in the September 1973 issue. It written by Col. V. A. Timofeev, retired from the Russian Air Force, who had met the Chapman Crew after they had been shot down.

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Black and white posed headshot of man wearing a uniform of a jacket, shirt, tie and hat. There are silver wings on the upper left-side of the jacket, and a WWII-era Air-Force silver officer insignia badge on the center of hat. There is an aviation insignia pin and on the jacket lapel, and a single bar on the shoulder lapel. Subject is looking right in lens and is smiling

Edwin J Alexander

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 467th Bomb Group 492nd Bomb Group 859th Bomb Squadron 788th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-6686692
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

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